Well, I drove home from college today, and I was too lazy to get off the highway, so had to go to the bathroom, and I pulled into the driveway probably around 2:59 and ran to the bathroom, so right around 3 PM I felt a huge sigh of releif as I took a huge dump. And then right around 3:05 as my mom was updating me on some crazy stuff going on in our family right now, I'm sure I said "Jesus f***ing christ!" several times

I had no idea that we actually knew what time Jesus died at so I looked into it a little. Mark 15:25 says Jesus was crucified at "the third hour". Because of the time systems that were in use, the actual time Jesus was crusified was either 6 am or 9 am. So my quetion is, what time would that be in the US?

Because of the time systems that were in use, the actual time Jesus was crusified was either 6 am or 9 am. So my quetion is, what time would that be in the US?

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it doesn't even matter, because the day is likely to be wrong. easter sunday isn't a fixed date, it's the first sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. so i'd say that the odds that any given easter is going to be an anniversary of a specific date 2000-some years ago is 1 in 7 at best, and probably a lot worse, given the variances in eligible sundays.

and with some people using a julian calendar to calculate easter, and most using a gregorian calendar, there's usually a difference of opinion there, too.

Note that the new method makes an Easter date of 21 March possible. This date was not possible under the Julian or Gregorian algorithms. Under the new method, Easter will fall on 21 March in the year 2877.

it doesn't even matter, because the day is likely to be wrong. easter sunday isn't a fixed date, it's the first sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. so i'd say that the odds that any given easter is going to be an anniversary of a specific date 2000-some years ago is 1 in 7 at best, and probably a lot worse, given the variances in eligible sundays.

and with some people using a julian calendar to calculate easter, and most using a gregorian calendar, there's usually a difference of opinion there, too.

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